{"id":8547,"date":"2009-06-25T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-25T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:38:00","slug":"cosatu-website-gets-google-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/8547-cosatu-website-gets-google-warning.html","title":{"rendered":"Cosatu Website gets Google Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband recently reported that the Cosatu website needed some attention, including the removal of malicious files from the website which can harm a visitor&rsquo;s computer (<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Internet\/8102.html\">Cosatu website a disaster<\/a>).&nbsp; We also contacted Cosatu about the problem and asked for comment as to what they will do to address the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Cosatu did not reply to the email from MyBroadband, and the lack of action on their part has now resulted in a Google warning to Internet users not to visit the trade union&rsquo;s online home.<\/p>\n<p>Internet users trying to visit the Cosatu website through a Google search link received the following message:&nbsp; &ldquo;Warning &#8211; visiting this web site may harm your computer!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Google search engine advises users to &ldquo;Return to the previous page and pick another result&rdquo; or &ldquo;Try another search to find what you&#8217;re looking for&rdquo;.&nbsp; Users are further warned that they should only continue to cosatu.org.za at their own risk.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google malicious software on the Cosatu wesbite includes 6 trojans, 6 exploits and 5 scripting exploits.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/photos\/showphoto.php\/photo\/11217\" target=\"_blank\">Cosatu website warning image<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=178258\">Cosatu website discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning &#8211; visiting the Cosatu web site may harm your computer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}